News Media & Software - page 65

  • Panguso Panguso: a search engine made in China February 23rd, 2011 - 10:45 am ET The Panguso search engine has been launched in China through two companies under state control.
  • Hotfile Piracy: Hotfile closes accounts February 22nd, 2011 - 01:29 pm ET Hotfile has decided to adopt a more aggressive policy against accounts that host content violating intellectual property rights.
  • Kinect Kinect: Microsoft announces an SDK for Windows February 22nd, 2011 - 09:20 am ET Next Spring, Microsoft will make a Kinect for Windows development kit available. This will be a free SDK, although a commercial version will also be released at a later date.
  • twitter-bird-logo The USA to tweet in Persian, Arabic, Russian, Chinese... February 21st, 2011 - 10:40 am ET The United States is looking to exploit the Twitter micro blogging service to communicate with various populations around the world.
  • Intel-Light-Peak Ultra-fast connectivity: Light Peak announced for Apple? February 21st, 2011 - 09:10 am ET According to information provided on CNET, Apple should soon announce their use of Intel’s Light Peak high speed connectivity technology.
  • facebooklogo The countries where Facebook struggles February 18th, 2011 - 11:15 am ET There are still a few countries putting up resistance against the Facebook phenomenon.
  • Google_Chrome_Logo Google Chrome 10: Even faster February 18th, 2011 - 10:00 am ET The tenth engine of the Google Chrome web browser has now been released as a public beta version. The JavaScript V8 engine has been beefed up even more, with GPU hardware ...
  • Drapeau Canada Canada cyber attacked from China February 17th, 2011 - 01:27 pm ET The Canadian government has been the victim of a computer attack quantified as unprecedented, with the trace leading back to servers hosted in China.
  • Jeopardy Watson Man vs. Machine: Watson claims victory February 17th, 2011 - 09:15 am ET In a confrontation of Man vs. Machine, it’s the computer who came out victorious, with two victories and a tie.
  • Protect-our-children Protect Our Children: 84 000 sites blocked by mistake! February 16th, 2011 - 11:41 am ET There was a small issue in operation Protect Our Children being conducted by the US government to shut down pedopornographic sites. For close to three days, 84 000 sites were ...